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		<title>New CELT Assistant</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/06/17/new-celt-assistant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Aaron Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To our valued bloggers and readers, I would quite like to introduce myself. I am Aaron Bates, a rising 2L at Albany Law. Now that Stephanie Giancristofaro-Partyka has graduated and is currently studying for the bar exam (for which we wish her all the luck in the world), I will be taking over her duties with the Center [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3195&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California Bar &#8211; bold proposal to require skills training</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Pistone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just learned this from Kate Kruse, President of the Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA). Tomorrow, June 11, 2013, the California Task Force on Admissions Regulation Reform will be meeting in San Francisco to consider its Final Report.    Importantly, the Task Force Report includes a recommendation that all applicants for admission to the California bar complete [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3211&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CALI conference June 13-15 in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/06/10/cali-conference-june-13-15-in-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Pistone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blended learning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ll be in the Chicago area this week, consider attending the CALI conference.  Info is available here.   This year&#8217;s conference is about Driving Innovation and will feature talks by Bill Henderson, Barbara Glesner-Fines, Conrad Johnson and many other innovators in legal education.  The conference will also include a number of session on one of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3198&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABA President Concerned for Unpaid Interns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Aaron Bates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late May, president of the American Bar Association (ABA) Laurel Bellows sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor expressing the ABA’s concerns about the uncertainty regarding the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) treatment of pro bono activities and the opportunities these activities present to students. Essentially, the ABA is concerned that ambiguities [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3187&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching the Skill of Listening in Law Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Pistone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wonderful research by Marj Shultz and Shelton Zedeck tells is that listening is one of the fundamental lawyering skills that all lawyers, especially recent graduates, need to have in their toolkit upon graduation.  So for the last few years, I have been trying to find ways to incorporate lessons on the skill of listening [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3161&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Law School Clinics and American Law</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/05/20/law-school-clinics-and-american-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Aaron Bates</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[McBurney v. Young]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moncrieffe v. Holder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is fantastic to see clinical work-product being used in court cases; to have clinical briefs being referenced in front of the Supreme Court of the United States shows the impact that effective experiential study can have and the effects that clinic experience can have on the future practices of these students. &#8220;The April 30, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3154&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching the &#8220;Smartphone Generation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/05/18/teaching-the-smartphone-generation/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/05/18/teaching-the-smartphone-generation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 01:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Giancristofaro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post comes to us from a very special blogger, Shailini Jandial George, who is a Professor at Suffolk University Law School. You have experienced a scenario like this: your students come to class with laptops, I pads and phones. They text and email during class. They giggle at something on their screens while [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3143&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commencing, Saying Goodbye, And &#8220;Ditching&#8221; C Grades?</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/05/18/commencing-saying-goodbye-and-ditching-c-grades/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 01:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday,  I sat on the stage of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) and for the 24th time fondly watched law students traverse the stage, receive their juris doctoris diploma, and begin their post-law school lives.  I listened to my 24th Commencement Speaker,  National Public Radio&#8217;s Nina Totenberg.  She urged law graduates to look to courageous and humble role [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3088&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Law School Ranking:  Calculator of Law School Employment Stats</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/05/09/alternative-law-school-ranking-calculator-of-law-school-employment-stats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;transparency&#8221; of law school employment statistics has been widely criticized and robustly discussed over the past few years,  resulting in changes to ABA accreditation rules and to law schools&#8217; documentation and reporting of their graduates employment status.  Just last week, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) http://iaals.du.edu/,  announced a new employment calculator intended to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3045&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TED Talks Education on PBS &#8211; May 7th</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2013/05/03/ted-talks-education-on-pbs-may-7th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 15:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michele Pistone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got this email from Chris Anderson, TED Curator. Should be worthwhile for anyone interested in how to improve teaching and learning. Dear TED community, I am proud to announce that TED Talks Education, our first original televised event, premieres this Tuesday, May 7, on PBS stations across the US. It will be available globally [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&#038;blog=1333490&#038;post=3036&#038;subd=bestpracticeslegaled&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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